Re: [Dspace-tech] moving to new machine.

2012-05-04 Thread genetitus
Hey helix84, Thanks for the great info. When I delete items, collections, communities, it leaves entries behind in the handle table. Is it ok to clean up the handle table and delete all entries where the resource_id is null? Thanks, Gene -- View this message in context: http://dspace.2283337.

Re: [Dspace-tech] moving to new machine.

2012-05-03 Thread genetitus
Thank you helix84, That was a great response. I think I understand (better). I am moving an established dspace 1.7.2 system to new server hardware. The new server hardware happens to be in the amazon cloud. I am not the owner of the source system nor can I log into it. The destination system is a

Re: [Dspace-tech] moving to new machine.

2012-05-03 Thread genetitus
I think we're talking about different things (or I'm really confused). As I understand it, I have to create the collection on the new dspace before I can import items from the source collection. The act of creating a collection assigns and database ID for that collection. When you create a collecti

Re: [Dspace-tech] moving to new machine.

2012-05-03 Thread genetitus
Hi Helix84, Yes, the new box will be in a different domain and have a new IP address. I know I'll need to follow update procedures with handle.net. You answered my question about using the same handle prefix on the new machine. Thanks. Another beginner question. When I create the collections on